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Most distressed by the coalition's fall was its largest member, the militant Communist Party of India (Marxist). In a show of muscle intended to reinforce their claim to a dominant role in any future government, the Marxists called a 24-hour general strike that paralyzed industry and brought bloodshed to the streets. Toward week's end India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invoked emergency provisions for direct control from New Delhi of the torn state...
Mandel is the editor of the weekly journal La Gaucho and the author of Marxist Economic Theory, published last year...
Jackson said that when he was once asked whether he is a Marxist his answer was "No, I am a black Christian who read the Bible" and who could...
...more united on what they oppose than on what they support. About a dozen student political organizations, ranging from far left to near right, agree on little beyond the need for some sort of reform. The most influential leftist group is the Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth League), whose Marxist-oriented leaders are accused by Marcos of being Maoists. It claims a membership of some 27,000 students, workers and peasants. The largest of the moderate groups (50,000 members) is the National Union of Students of the Philippines, which is heavily influenced by liberal thinkers within the Roman Catholic Jesuit...
ATHIRD contributor raises some nasty Freudian questions about radical youth. Erik Erikson postulates that youth is a kind of "psychological moratorium," during which young people are entitled to experiment with styles of behavior, and utopian models of human society, without being held accountable. Youth experiments with the Marxist model, putting itself in the role of the proletariat, or with the Gandhian model, putting itself in the role of the non-violent, oppressed colonial, and thus becomes part of the "revolt of the dependent." Youth in development is dependent upon society, as are colonials and the proletariat, and to be dependent...